Protestants
TitleProtestants
Author
Call number940.5318/0385
Object number06034p
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherOxford University Press
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp250-264
MaterialArticle
Series titleOxford handbooks
ISBN9780199211869
NotesArticle from the book ' The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies' pp250-269
Description
Takes up the "Kirchenkampf'" (Church struggle) waged by German Protestants in the Third Reich, and finds that it hardly represented forthright opposition to the Nazi state. Most Protestants were more supportive than resistant to the Nazi regime. Some Protestants, such as Niemoller and Bonhoeffer did oppose Nazi policies at risk to their lives